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Article 2 of the Climate Convention calls for stabilization of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level that will avoid ‘danger’ to economies and ecosystems (United Nations, 1992). The parties to the Convention are now debating how this part of the agreement should be interpreted, and what numerical limit should be set. Building on earlier work by Jacoby et al. (1997b), we experiment here with the concept of ‘necessary conditions’ that would have to be met for an international agreement to have hope of achieving such a goal. The resulting analysis can serve as a guide to discussion of the policies and institutions needed to carry out this complex task, and add reality to the setting of the goal itself.
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Yang, Z., Jacoby, H.D. (1999). Necessary conditions for stabilization agreements. In: Carraro, C. (eds) International Environmental Agreements on Climate Change. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Feem) Series on Economics, Energy and Environment, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9169-0_5
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